BND - Rays sweep Yankees in ALDS after fan interference call

🗞️ Story file #218

Rays sweep Yankees in ALDS after fan interference call

Oct 8, 12 AM ET to Oct 8, 7 PM ET

11outlets carried it
🫏4 · 2 · 5🐘left · center · right
19 hourson the front pages
11front pages at once, at its peak
61 sof TV captions
9people retold it online
2 of 2parts of a saga

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

Oct 8, 12 AM ETfirst on a front page: The Guardian
Oct 8, 4 AM ETretold online by 9 people
Oct 8, 7 AM ETfirst on TV: CNN
Oct 8, 12 PM ETpeak: on 11 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 8, 12 AM to Oct 8, 7 PM ET (peak 11), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📌 linked by aggregators: Google News

🗣️ only one side says: 🐘 interference call

✏️ 5 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

AP (4 wordings): “Yankees make 4 errors in sloppy playoff loss to Rays that leaves them on brink of elimination” → “Fan interference denies Anthony Volpe a tying homer as Yankees get swept by Rays in ALDS”
Fox News (2 wordings): “Rays sweep Yankees in ALDS after controversial spectator interference denies Anthony Volpe's homer” → “Spectator interference call crushes Yankees' comeback bid and ends their season”
New York Post (4 wordings): “Anthony Volpe’s homer overturned in Yankee Stadium fan controversy” → “New video angle reveals what unfolded with Yankees fan during interference controversy”
Tampa Bay Times (4 wordings): “Rays celebrate in New York again with sweep of Yankees, advance to ALCS • Sports comment” → “Fan-interference call eliminates Yankees’ tying home run vs. Rays”
The Guardian (2 wordings): “Yankees swept by Rays after fan interference drama while Dodgers reach NLCS” → “Rays sweep Yankees after fan interference downgrades New York home run”

Every outlet's first headline (11), left to right by AllSides rating